He is only 15 years old and is known all over the world. His name is Barron Trump, his father has just been inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States and he will be the first male child to live in the White House almost 60 years after the iconic snapshot of John F. Kennedy and his son in the Oval Office.
Barron is the youngest of five siblings and the only child of the marriage between Donald Trump and his wife Melania. He was born on March 20, 2006 and lives in the attic of the Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue in New York, where he also has a floor of the building to himself. He speaks three languages - English, French and Slovenian - and his biggest hobby is golf, a sport he plays with his father.
Barron plays golf, speaks three languages and has a floor in Trump Tower all to himself.
He is with his mother Melania, however, with whom he spends the most time. The first lady defined him in an interview with the Parenting.com portal as "a very strong, very special, intelligent boy." According to the former model, Barron is an "independent" person and he knows exactly what he wants. “Sometimes I call him Little Donald. He is a mix of us in looks, but his personality is why I call him little Donald,” Melania recounted.
In September 2015, Donald and Melania told People magazine that they hadn't needed a nanny to raise Barron. “I like to get involved. I think he is very important,” the first lady declared.
Currently the youngest of the clan studies at the Columbia Grammar Preparatory School in Manhattan. At school, the appointment of Donald Trump as the new US president has raised doubts among some parents about security measures and the inconvenience it could cause the school. The presidential family, for its part, has already announced that Barron will finish the school year and will move to the White House with his parents.
While Donald Trump is known for grabbing the front pages of the media every time he speaks, Barron has stolen some of the limelight from him on several occasions. Although not intentionally. The election night in which the Republican's victory was announced, the boy accompanied his father on stage and, before the attentive gaze of millions of people, had to make a titanic effort to stay awake and pretend to pay attention to the appearance of the newly elected president.
“Barron is a very strong boy, very special, intelligent”
Melania Trump, First Lady of the United States
Something similar happened to him during the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump as president of the United States. The speech did not last more than 16 minutes, but it was enough time for the yawning and the constant gestures of boredom to turn little Barron into the center of attention of the 31 million people who followed the ceremony live.
The last appearances of the little Trump have given him a leading role that has resulted in harsh criticism and ridicule for his behavior. Even Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Democrat Hillary Clinton and former US President Bill Clinton, has come forward to defend the child. In a Twitter message, she declared that "Barron Trump deserves the opportunity that every child deserves to have during childhood." Chelsea also took advantage of the occasion to attack the president-elect and concluded: "Defending each child also means opposing the policies of @POTUS [Twitter account of the US president] that hurt them."
Chelsea Clinton asked for respect for the little Trump after the continuous teasing
Barron has had a hard time assimilating that his father is, in addition to one of the richest men in the world, the president of the United States. According to a source close to the family told the New York Post, "the campaign has been difficult ” for the little Trump and his mother wants to “limit disturbances to a minimum”. That is why they made the decision to wait to move to the White House until Barron finished the course.
The constant teasing about Barron and his behavior have flooded social networks, especially Twitter, where numerous memes about the boy have circulated since his first public appearance. Despite the harsh criticism, it was a youtuber who made the first lady intervene. James Hunter suggested in a video on his channel that the little one from the Trump clan suffered from autism.
Melania's response was to threaten to sue him, and he promptly apologized. Hunter claimed that he was diagnosed with autism at the age of five and that he "just wanted to stop all these people who harass the little boy because of his strange behavior." "I never wanted to hang it to intimidate," he declared. The youtuber eventually removed the video.
A youtuber suggested that Barron suffered from autism and Melania Trump threatened to sue him
